High Frequency Trading’s Impact

The effect of high-frequency trading (HFT) on market quality is important, and has generated strong interest among academics, investors and regulators alike.

Graham Partington, Richard Philip and Amy Kwan—authors of an October 2015 paper, “Is High Frequency Trading Beneficial to Market Quality?”—examined how HFT has changed the dynamics of the market and whether traditional academic measures of market “quality” are relevant in the new world of electronic trading.